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LA. ROCHELLE 
JaArpIN BoraNnigue DEPARTEMENTAL DE LA CHARENTE- 
INFERIEURE 
Established: 1871. Area: one-half hectare. 
Directors: 1, Edouard Beltzemieux (1871-1894) ; 2. J. Foucaud 
(1894-1906). 
Served as a public park; open free, daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 
Note: The president of the Society of Natural Sciences of the 
Charente Inférieure reports that the Botanic Garden of La Ro- 
chelle was discontinued after the death of the last director in 
1906, and transformed to an ordinary public garden belonging to 
the city and maintained by it. 
LAUTARET (HAUTES ALPES) 
JARDIN ALPIN 
L’Université de Grenoble, Grenoble, France 
Established: 1896. Area: 3000 sq. meters. Altitude: 2075 
meters. 
Director: 1. P. Lachmann (1896-1908): 2. Marcel Miranda 
(1908— ) 
The Ministry of Works having declined to finance the Garden, 
M. Bonnabel, proprietor of the local hotel provided the funds for 
its grading and terracing (1896-1897 ), and the planting was done 
in 1899. The most noteworthy feature was a collection of 532 
species characteristic of the flora of the western Alps. In 1908 
the Garden contained typical representatives of the principal moun- 
tai massives of the world. 
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LAVOINE (ALLIER) 
JARDIN BoTANIQUE 
DE POUY (HAUTE LOIRE 
JARDIN BOTANIQUE DE L’ECOLE NorMALE DES INSTITUTEURS 
LAVALLOIS-PERRET (SEINE) 
Muste ET JARDIN BOTANIQUE 
Rue Lannois 37 Bis 
